Using W10Privacy To Boost Ubuntu WSL Performance On Windows 10

With Python and PHP benchmarks, no real difference from W10Privacy.

With our Git benchmark timing how long it takes to complete some common Git commands on the large GTK+ Git repository, the W10Privacy-utilized results were much faster due to the I/O speed boost.

The synthetic OSBench does a great job showing how significant the changes can be in the time to create files. The WSL performance is now much closer to the Windows speed.

Launching programs via the OSBench synthetic test was also much faster on the W10Privacy-optimized system.

Considering past benchmarks I have done just looking to see if disabling Windows 10 Defender would help the WSL performance, I was amazed to see the I/O performance improvement when following all of the changes set by W10Privacy. Particularly when using Ubuntu 18.04 with WSL, the I/O performance is dramatically better. But it's important to keep in mind that disabling some Windows services may make your system more vulnerable to exploit, etc. But in terms of raw performance, this is a big speed-up for WSL at least until Microsoft is better able to make low-level optimizations to help out the Windows Subsystem for Linux.